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To: Knighty Tin who wrote (9203)	3/2/2004 4:47:43 PM
From: Ditchdigger	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110194

"The same way our President scored a 960 on his SATs. <VBG>" <lol> Are you sure he wasn't cramming during those "missing" months in his service record?<g>,,have to go load the woodstove..Don't the API #'s come out tonight?

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (9203)	3/3/2004 3:09:31 AM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110194

the test is hard ? I do not think so from my experience few years back

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (9203)	3/3/2004 1:29:30 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110194

Re: it. The same way our President scored a 960 on his SATs. <VBG> Do you have verification of that figure? I've seen unverified data to the effect that Bush achieved a 560-math and 620-verbal, for a combined 1180.

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (9203)	3/3/2004 10:33:36 PM
From: 8bits	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110194

I am certainly not a Bush fan but apparently his combined SAT scores were 1206 according to Salon. (Who got the info from a New Yorker article..) archive.salon.com Interestly enough apparently SAT scores have been "re-centered" in recent years since GWB took the test and his adjusted SAT score would be higher in the modern era. straightdope.com "(1) Is George W. Bush stupid? We have pretty good data here. In 1999 the NewYorker obtained a copy of the future president's Yale transcript and revealed that he'd had a C average in college and, more interestingly, scored 1206 on his Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT)--566 on the verbal and 640 on the math. To find out how this score stacked up, I called Educational Testing Service, publisher of the SAT, and learned that in 1994, SAT scores had been "re-centered." To offset the steady downward drift of test scores over the years, the scoring scale was adjusted upward so that the mean score for both math and verbal was again 500 (the midpoint on a scale of 200 to 800). Those who took the test before 1994 are now entitled to add a prescribed amount to their scores to see how they compare to students today. Having made the necessary adjustment, Little Ed announced, "I got 800 on my verbal! I'm a direct beneficiary of the stupidity of the American public!" Doing the same for Bush gives him 640 on both verbal and math, good enough for 88th percentile on the verbal and 86th in math were he entering college now. Those scores may not be as high as mine, of course, or even Al Gore's (625 verbal, 730 math unadjusted), but they ain't bad. Then again, I recall having seen a college guide circa 1970 that listed the average SAT for Yale freshmen as about 670 in verbal, 705 in math. So Bush was well below average for his class. He must have written a great essay."